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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leaders traded barbs for six hours late on Thursday in a debate over the last two months of anti-government protests, but found no common ground.
Mr Maduro had been widely praised for instituting the talks, but opposition leaders seemed uninterested in conciliation of any kind.
They used the opportunity to demand amnesty for people arrested in the recent wave of violent protests.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
